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The naval battle known as the action of 4 April 1941 was fought in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. The German commerce raider Thor sank the British auxiliary cruiser Voltaire. The Germans and Italians took Benghazi. [5] Hitler issued Directive No. 27, Plan of Attack on Greece. The Greek torpedo boat Proussa was sunk by Italian aircraft off Corfu.
The bomb-damaged Old Palace in central Belgrade, struck during the first wave of bombing on 6 April 1941. German ground forces crossed the Yugoslav border at 05:15 on 6 April, and the Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, announced Germany's declaration of war at 06:00. [18]
April 23 – Ray Tomlinson (died 2016), American computer scientist. April 28 – Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist, twice winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2001, 2022). [12] May 25 – Uta Frith, German-born British developmental psychologist. June 20 – Robert D. Acland (died 2016), English-born microsurgeon.
April 1, 1941 Aircraft sink two ships from convoy HX 114. [11] April 3, 1941 U-boats sink six ships from convoy SC 26. [10] April 6, 1941 Aircraft sink Dunstan from convoy OB 306. [6] April 9, 1941 The United States occupies Greenland. April 16, 1941 Aircraft sink Swedru from convoy SL 69. [7] April 28, 1941 U-boats sink four ships from convoy ...
7 April: The Luftwaffe begins a two-day assault on Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Hitler is infuriated by the Yugoslav resistance. 8 April: The Germans take Salonika, Greece. 9 April: The Palestinian leader Amin al-Husseini issues a fatwa in a radio speech from Baghdad, calling on Muslims to engage in a holy war against Great Britain. [3] 10 April
Of the final three, two were delivered to the VVKJ on 10 April and one was delivered on 12 April 1941. [93] On 6 April, Luftwaffe dive-bombers and ground-attack fighters destroyed 26 of the Yugoslav Dorniers in the initial assault on their airfields, but the remaining aircraft were able to effectively hit back with numerous attacks on German ...
April 25 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, criticizes Charles Lindbergh by comparing him to the Copperheads of the Civil War period. In response, Lindbergh resigns his commission in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve on April 28. April 28 – World War II: All US assets of Greek nationals are frozen. [1]
1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.